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Monday, March 26, 2001 Volume IX, Number 196
did ya
know?
Did Ya Know?. . .The American Red Cross will hold a Salad
Luncheon from
11 a.m.- 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 29th at the United
Methodist Church in Carthage. Tickets are $4 each and
delivery is available. Proceeds will go toward local
programming. For more information call 358-4334.
Did Ya Know?. . .The Diabetes
Support Group will meet from 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, March
28th in the McCune-Brooks dining room. This month Mrs.
Mary Ann Gremling will talk about her experiences in
helping her husband deal with diabetes. Everyone is
invited to attend.
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today's laugh
"Any fishin
around here?"
"Some," answered the
barefoot boy.
"What do you catch?"
"You said fishin, not
ketchin."
A man who was boasting of the unusual
height of a relative of his was annoyed by one of the
company, who said he had a brother twelve feet high.
"Impossible!" snarled the boaster.
"Well, two halves make a whole, dont
they?" asked the other.
"Yes," was the reply.
"Well then, Ive got two half-brothers, each of
whom is six feet high, and twice two makes twelve feet.
Isnt that right?"
1901
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
McCawley To Quit
Altogether.
Now that the legislature has adopted
the law abolishing the office of county counselor in
Jasper county it is said that A. L. McCawley has decided
to give up as "purchasing agent" also and will
tender his resignation from both positions to the county
court at its next meeting. McCawley is said to have
stated to a friend that he considers it useless to try to
hold on as purchasing agent after he has been knocked out
as counselor; that public opinion is too strongly against
it. "Nobody can legislate me out of one thing,
though," McCawley is quoted as saying. "That is
my influence with the county court."
It is said that McCawley, in
partnership with a young lawyer of this city and a
newspaper man in the west part of the county, expects to
go west, probably to Oklahoma, where they will open a law
office and start a newspaper.
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Today's Feature
Council
OK's Ad Money.
The City Council met in a
special meeting last Friday morning in City Hall
at 8:30 a.m. and voted 9-1 to allow up to $400 to
be spent on informative ads for the upcoming
Lodging Tax ballot issue. The money will come
from the existing Lodging Tax fund.
A motion to allow up to $500 to
be spend from the City General Fund was rejected
by the Council at the last regular meeting.
According to City Administrator
Tom Short, the City Attorney had reviewed the ad
content and felt it presented only information
and was not slanted toward a particular point of
view. State statutes do not allow pubic funds to
be spent to persuade a vote for or against.
The City currently collects a
2% lodging tax on all overnight motel or bed and
breakfast stays. The proposed issue would raise
that amount to 4%. According to the ad copy, the
average lodging tax in the state is 4.1%.
The funds will be used to place
three ads in the community evening paper and
several spots on the local radio station.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
The warm weather
last week seemed to lift folks
spirits a bit. Its amazin
how a little sunshine and some 60
degree weather can improve the
attitude. Course this time a
year, switchin back into the
40s and a little rain can
always interrupt.
This year spring
will bring a little extra relief in
the form of a reduction in the high
heatin bills.
Im
hearin from the old timers that
this was probly not the
harshest winter in their memory, but
it was in the rankin. Specially
the amount of snow fall and the
length of time it stayed on the
ground.
Nothin much
better than comin into spring
time after a long winter I suppose.
Well no doubt see a little
reminder of winter for a while, but
nothin too dangerous.
This is some fact,
but mostly,
Just Jake
Talkin.
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Workman's Loan
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Weekly Column
The
Super Handyman.
by Al Carrell & Kelly
Carrell
Dear Al & Kelly: One thing
I noticed while caulking one afternoon was that
even though the caulking gun seemed to have
reached the end of the tube.
By adding a small wooden block
to the end of the plunger of my caulking gun, I
was able to get out the last of the caulk. I
Start off normally but once about half of the
caulk is gone, I pull the plunger back and insert
a wooden block that is about a half-inch thick
with a diameter narrower than the caulk tube. The
block slips into the bottom of the caulking tube,
and then I push the plunger back in.-M.W.
A SUPER HINT- When working on a
table saw, you really want your work to glide
over the table and along the rip fence. A light
sprinkling of cornstarch or talcum power right on
the table can help.
Dear Carrells: I took my old
fabric tape measure, which I used to use for
sewing , and glued it to the front of my
workbench. It is as long the workbench, and I use
it all the time to measure projects. I put a few
coats of left over lacquer on top of it, to make
sure it wouldnt peel up and to keep the
numbers from rubbing off. It sure is handy- K.M.
A SUPER HINT-To keep from
slipping off your ladder steps, wrap a scrap of
screen wire or hardware cloth around each one.
Staple it in place, and it will give you a little
extra traction, even with muddy feet.
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